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Dinki Mini

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The song-and-dance tradition of the nine-night wake, strongest in St Mary and Jamaica's east: up-tempo, defiantly lively music in the face of death, danced through the nights after a passing, with the benta — a bamboo zither — among its distinctive instruments.

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Revival, Kumina, Maroon and mento traditions supplied the rhythms, drums and speech that Jamaica's recording studios later turned into ska, reggae and dub.